The President cares about America's poor

The President of Venezuela that is. Hugo Chavez is sending cheap heating oil to two communities in the US.

From HoustonChronicle.com - AROUND THE REGION

Citgo to help poor on heating oil costs

Citgo Petroleum said Thursday it plans to distribute discounted heating oil to the U.S. poor to help them cope with expected record fuel costs this winter.

The Houston-based company, a subsidiary of Venezuelan state oil giant PDVSA, said it will send up to 12 million gallons of cheaper heating oil to communities in Boston and the Bronx borough of New York City next week.

It is the second offer of energy assistance from Venezuela — whose leftist President Hugo Chavez is a harsh critic of President Bush — since hurricanes disrupted oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.

Catching up on current events

There has been so much going on and I haven't had time to comment on any of it.

Dubya's approval ratings are at an all-time low.

The FTAA went down in flames. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and Bolivian populist Evo Morales stole the show by leading a peaceful People's Summit of over 450,000 people in Arghentina. Chavez declared, "The FTAA does not exist; let's create a fair trade." But he warned that FTAA supporters will try again to revive it.

Bush continues to "restore honor and integrity" to the Oval Office. Secret prisons.

Bush is now even refusing to listen to his own God (speaking through Bush's own United Methodist Church) and withdraw from Iraq. God told him to invade, now God is telling him to stop the unjust war.

And, of course, the quote of the week that exemplifies the Bush administration:

"Please roll up the sleeves on your shirt -- all shirts. Even the President rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this crisis and on TV you just need to look more hard-working ... ROLL UP THE SLEEVES."

-- Sharon Worthy, in email to FEMA Director Michael Brown during the Katrina disaster

There was a lot more that I missed in the past few weeks, but that's all I have time for right now.